Sunday assorted links

1. False claims about China and Japan, but still worth pondering.

2. False claims about birth rates and utility.

3. Can management consultants be literary heroes? (FT)

4. JFV on equilibrium in economics.

5. When does low fertility shatter the social contract?

6. Naturally occurring furin cleavage sites.

7. If somehow you do not know the works of Tom Stoppard you should, RIP, here is the NYT obituary.